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    JimBellJimBell Still LIfe (2006/2008)
    by JimBell in JimBell Blog
    lost interest.
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    "Still Life (2006/2008) is like watching two shades of paint dry on a two-toned wall. The paint dries in 1 hour and 48 minutes, but it seems longer. Alternate review: Still Life does not really say anything but rather paints a canvas which, even though I am not from the culture, I can interpret by projecting onto it what I feel. The two seemingly unrelated stories are actually related in theme, revealing the profound Buddhist philosophical point that all is one. Han Sanming, a coal miner, endures a 5-day journey to Fengjie to look for his wife—well, actually, his daughter—his wife will know where she is. But people are very diffi " [More]
    TheReelerTheReeler Still Life, Tribeca's Masterpiece
    by TheReeler in The Reeler on Spout
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    "One of the stiller moments in Jia Zhang Ke's Still Life By Vadim Rizov Unless something miraculous happens, Still Life will be Tribeca's designated masterpiece and, with any justice, competition winner. Not that it'll really benefit at this late date; even after winning the Golden Lion at Venice and screening at a plethora of other festivals, Still Life still has no American distributor. Surprising, given that Still Life is a lean 108 minutes and classifies as relatively accessibly for Jia Zhang Ke, whose previous films have such inviting IMDB genre tags as "ennui" and "disenchantment." A tip: The characters are not the story. Han Sanming (as a miner named Han Sanming) arrives in Fengjie after having been gone for 16 years to find his ex-wife, only to learn that the entire area has been flooded as part of China's massive Three Gorges hydroelectric program (ongoing since 1993, to be complete by 2009, and forcing the relocation of more than 1.2 million people in t ... " [More]
 
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